{"id":926,"date":"2011-09-30T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:50:31","slug":"getting-used-to-apartment-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Getting Used to Apartment Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More classes today. I have a lot of gaps to fill in in my Japanese. Today I have my private lessons, then I&#8217;ll probably go to Nagoya to do some shopping. I need to get a wireless router and some kitchen supplies, as well as some sheets ASAP. Those are all top priorities.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting used to the apartment. I like it a lot. It has some nice features, which I&#8217;ll go into some other time.<\/p>\n<h3>Shopping List<\/h3>\n<p>My B-Mobile data-only SIM card ate about 100 MB of data since I got it in Tokyo, and that&#8217;s too much, too fast. I want this to last the whole time I&#8217;m here, so I need to pick up a WiFi router to slow down the data drain.<\/p>\n<p>My tablet is also kind of useless without a wireless internet connection. It&#8217;s not completely useless, but it&#8217;s about half as useful. So I better get a router.<\/p>\n<p>My kitchen comes with a rice cooker (but it&#8217;s tiny), a few pots and pans (the &#8220;non-stick&#8221; pan isn&#8217;t very much of one), a toaster oven, a microwave that doubles as a tiny oven, a fridge, and that&#8217;s about it for the kitchen. The rest is pretty much up to me.<\/p>\n<p>So I need to go buy a few things to make my life easier for the next few months. I suppose I can just live out of the conbini&#8230; but I&#8217;d rather make an attempt at not doing that.<\/p>\n<h3>Pillow Talk<\/h3>\n<p>Something else I found out is that Japanese beds don&#8217;t have the same sizes as US beds do, so the sheets I brought don&#8217;t fit. It&#8217;s like a fat twin or a skinny double, so my US twin-size sheets are too narrow to fit this bed.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s something else to buy. <\/p>\n<p>I brought my own pillow with me. I know I sound like an 8-year-old, but I have a favorite foam pillow. It collapses nicely and fits into a Space Bag. I also brought a blanket, so I can just &#8220;camp out&#8221; on top of the bed for now. Not a huge deal, but I kind of want a bottom sheet at the very least.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Gotta jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More classes today. I have a lot of gaps to fill in in my Japanese. Today I have my private lessons, then I&#8217;ll probably go to Nagoya to do some shopping. I need to get a wireless router and some kitchen supplies, as well as some sheets ASAP. Those are all top priorities. I&#8217;m getting <a href='https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=926' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,3,5],"tags":[523,526,527,894,828,525,150,100,895,524,106],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-japan-trip","category-travel","tag-apartment","tag-bedsheets","tag-classes","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-kitchen","tag-nagoya","tag-okazaki","tag-travel","tag-villa-5","tag-yamasa","category-117-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}